Chih-Yuan Yang Overview

  • Investor Type
  • Angel

  • Status
  • Active

  • Professionals
  • 1

Professionals

  • Investments
  • 109

  • Portfolio
  • 47

  • Exits
  • 43

Exits

Chih-Yuan Yang General Information

Description

Mr. Chih-Yuan Yang is a Founding Partner of AME Cloud Ventures. He serves as Board Member at Lenovo. He serves as Board Member, Member of the Compensation Committee & Cahir of the Investment Committee at Workday. He serves as a Chairman of the Compensation Committee, Board Member and nominating, and Corporate Governance Committee Member at Alibaba Group. He is a Chairman of the Investment Committee and a Member of the Compensation Committee at Workday. He also served as a Board Member and Advisor at BirdEye. He serves as an Advisor at SignalFire. He served as a Board Member at Pluribus Networks. He also served as an Advisor at Radius Intelligence. He serves as a Board Observer and Senior Advisor at Didi Kuaidi. Since March 2012, he has worked with and invested in technology entrepreneurs as the founding partner of AME Cloud Ventures, his innovation investment firm. He is also a co-founder of Yahoo!, where he served as a director from March 1995 to January 2012, and as Chief Executive Officer from June 2007 to January 2009. He also led Yahoo!'s investments in Yahoo Japan and Alibaba Group Holding and he is currently a director of Alibaba Group, where he has served on the board from October 2005 to January 2012 and from September 2014 to the present. He has been an independent non-executive director of the Company since November 6, 2014. Before that, he was the board observer of the Company since February 20, 2013. From July 2000 to November 2012, he was a member of Cisco Systems' Board of Directors, and he was a director of Yahoo! Japan from January 1996 to January 2012. He also is a director of various private companies and foundations. He is currently an independent director of Workday. He received a B.S. and M.S. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University, where he served as Vice-Chair of the Board of Trustees from June 2005 until September 2016. He served as a Board Member at Docker. He is a Co-Founder and serves as Chief Advisor at News Break. He served as Advisor at ClimateAI.

Business Details

Investor Status
Actively Seeking New Investments
Primary Investor Type
Angel (individual)
Corporate Office
  • Los Altos Hills, CA
  • United States

Chih-Yuan Yang Investments (109)

Company Name Deal Date Deal Type Deal Size Industry Company Stage Lead Partner
Nitra 12-Nov-2024 Early Stage VC Financial Software Generating Revenue
Socket (Network Management Software) 22-Oct-2024 Network Management Software Generating Revenue
Ema Unlimited 08-Jul-2024 Business/Productivity Software Generating Revenue
Astrocade 11-Jun-2024 Entertainment Software Generating Revenue
Semafor 24-May-2023 Publishing Generating Revenue
Astrocade 01-May-2023 Entertainment Software Generating Revenue
Fairmatic 16-Jan-2023 Insurance Brokers Generating Revenue
Somewear 21-Sep-2022 Wireless Communications Equipment Generating Revenue
Fairmatic 31-Aug-2022 Later Stage VC Insurance Brokers Generating Revenue
Hebbia 30-Jun-2022 Early Stage VC Business/Productivity Software Generating Revenue

Chih-Yuan Yang Exits (43)

Company Name Exit Date Exit Type Exit Size
Synthego 06-May-2025 Bankruptcy: Admin/Reorg
Everlance 19-Feb-2025
Enfore 27-Sep-2024
Dondo 02-Sep-2024
Amitree 15-Feb-2024
Skiff 01-Feb-2024
Headroom 29-Nov-2023
Remrise 23-Dec-2022
Xapo Bank 01-Sep-2022 Secondary Transaction - Private
Rewire 16-Aug-2022 Merger/Acquisition

Chih-Yuan Yang Investments by Industry, Year, and Region

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Chih-Yuan Yang Co-Investors (331)

Name With Exits Lead Partner Series Industry
AME Cloud Ventures 6 Series chart Industry bar
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Chih-Yuan Yang FAQs

  • Who is Chih-Yuan Yang?

    Chih-Yuan Yang is an angel Investor who has made 109 investments.

  • What kind of investor is Chih-Yuan Yang?

    Chih-Yuan Yang is an angel investor.

  • What does Chih-Yuan Yang do?

    As an angel investor, Chih-Yuan Yang invests personal money into promising companies, typically in exchange for equity.

  • How many board seats does Chih-Yuan Yang hold?

    Chih-Yuan Yang holds 2 board seats including Lenovo and Workday.

  • What has Chih-Yuan Yang invested in?

    Chih-Yuan Yang has made numerous investments in companies like Nitra, Socket (Network Management Software), and Ema Unlimited within the Financial Software, Network Management Software, and Business/Productivity Software industries.

  • What has Chih-Yuan Yang invested in recently?

    Chih-Yuan Yang's latest investment was on 12-Nov-2024 in Nitra, a company within the Financial Software industry.

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